Hon Lee Ocran | |
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Member of the Ghana Parliament for Jomoro | |
In office January 2005 –January 2009 | |
Preceded by | Joseph Emmanuel Ackah |
Succeeded by | Samia Nkrumah |
Majority | 1,665 |
Ghanaian High Commissioner to Pretoria | |
In office November 2009 –February 2012 | |
Preceded by | Jimmy Ben Heymann |
Succeeded by | Martha Ama Akyaa Pobee |
Minister for Education | |
In office February 2012 –February 2013 | |
President | John Atta Mills |
Preceded by | Betty Mould-Iddrisu |
Succeeded by | Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang |
Personal details | |
Born | c. 1945 Nawule,Jomoro District,Ghana |
Died | 21 February 2019 73–74) Accra,Ghana | (aged
Political party | National Democratic Congress |
Lee Tandoh Ocran [1] (born about 1945;died 21 February 2019) was a Ghanaian politician who served as Minister for Education of Ghana from 2012 to 2013. Ocran was appointed Minister by President John Atta Mills in February 2012 in a cabinet reshuffle following the resignation of Betty Mould-Iddrisu from the government and the sacking of Martin Amidu. [2] [3] [4]
In 2000 he was Deputy Minister of Environment Science and Technology. [5] He was the former Minister for Education from 2012 to 2013. He was sworn in as a board chairman of VRA in February 2014. [6] He was also the former High Commissioner of Ghana to South Africa. [7]
Since January 2005 as candidate from the National Democratic Congress he was Member of Parliament for the Jomoro constituency [8] until he lost his seat to the daughter of Kwame Nkrumah,Samia Nkrumah of the Convention People's Party in the December 2008 parliamentary election. [9] In February 2014 Ocran was sworn in as board chairman of Volta River Authority. [10] On 13 May 2015 he described the Bui Dam as a White Elephant (extravagant but burdensome gift). [11]
He was a Christian and worshiped as a Catholic. He was married with three children. [12]
He died at the age of 74 after battling with illnesses. [13]
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